1 This is release 20040309 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on
2 Unix. This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs
3 and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work
6 WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20040309: (see ChangeLog for details)
7 - Much improved winegcc tool, now used to build Wine itself.
8 - VxDs are now separate libraries for better modularity.
9 - Improvements and simplifications to the drive configuration.
10 - New setupapi INF script to create the initial registry.
11 - Many improvements to the various multimedia dlls.
14 See the README file in the distribution for installation instructions.
16 Because of lags created by using mirror, this message may reach you before
17 the release is available at the ftp sites. The sources will be available
18 from the following locations:
20 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20040309.tar.gz
21 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/Wine-20040309.tar.gz
23 It should also be available from any other site that mirrors ibiblio.org.
24 These locations also hold pre-built documentation packages in various
25 formats: wine-doc-html.tar.gz, wine-doc-txt.tar.gz,
26 wine-doc-pdf.tar.gz and wine-doc-ps.tar.gz.
28 You can also get the current source directly from the CVS tree. Check
29 http://www.winehq.org/cvs for details.
31 Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.org". Please
32 don't forget to include a ChangeLog entry. If you submitted a patch,
33 please check to make sure it has been included in the new release.
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36 when a new one is released, you can subscribe to the mailing list at
37 http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-releases .
39 Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
40 AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.